Greaves, Charles, Private, 1662, 1st Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers
Born Bakewell, Derbyshire
Enlisted Wakefield, Yorkshire
Disembarked for service 13th August 1914
Died of wounds 1st November 1914
Buried in La Clytte Military Cemetery, I, D, 1

Further information courtesy of Nick Beeley:
Charles was born in Offerton, near Hathersage, where the family farm was located, and he enlisted in 1905. He had a brother George who had served during the Boer War, and according to a family story, at the outbreak of the Great War, George disappeared out on the moors and was never found.

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